Polished Home

The cupcake has become a very fashionable desert in the last couple of years. They are no longer relegated to children’s parties, but are now substituted for full-fledged wedding cakes. The flexibility of this desert continues to be tapped into, and this idea is the latest and greatest in my humble opinion. What will be [...]

There are many benefits to working from home: savings on petrol; the comfort of fitted home office furniture; the flexibility to work to your own schedule. Not only this, but by working from home you have already reduced your carbon emissions by removing the gas-guzzling commute to work. However, with 3.4 million people in the [...]

Several of us do not have the luxury of allocating an entire room in our homes to being nothing other than a guest bedroom. Therefore, we have to create a space that does double duty, if not triple. To make this work effectively, a daybed is often a great piece of furniture to set up [...]

I cannot tell you how many times I have wrapped a gift and then realised I forgot to purchase a card to go along with it. Or, I have riffled through my extra supply of tags, or cards only to realise they are all holiday specific, and not appropriate for this item. Thus, I was [...]

While on a trip to the Krabi Province in Thailand I happened upon a very talented oil painter. He had set up a studio amongst a strip of local restaurants, and worked voraciously in front of those strolling by. After a brief review of the numerous pieces he had on display, and even more importantly [...]

If you are interested in being a person who recycles, but does so in a concealed manner, then boy do I have the perfect tip for you. Take that collection of plastic bags that you have acquired from grocery store runs and make good use of those plastic bags by putting them inside of your [...]

There are certain key elements that make a home more conducive to entertaining within it. Simply serving lots of bubbly and gorgeous starters will only get you so far, you must do more in order to set the scene. For instance, some home furnishings lend themselves to creating an environment that allows for easy interaction. [...]

If you are looking for a memorable Valentine’s Gift, the kind that you get to enjoy all year long, then maybe heart art is for you. There are several artists who make wonderful prints of gorgeous hearts in numerous elaborately decorative pieces. One of my favourites is the work of an artist named Mindy Newman. [...]

I just attended an appetizer party, and it has gotten me motivated to host my own. We have been avoiding having company over for the last couple of months because we gave our daughter a bunch of our chairs for her new flat. Of course the intention is to invest in new ones, but when [...]

Recently, I found myself on a very time consuming telephone call with a friend regarding the decoration of her daughter’s bedroom. She was going on and on about how she had to get it just perfect for little Laurie and that she was going to get a professional painter to do a mural, a seamstress [...]